Karl Rove's big election-fraud hoax

Republican manipulation of the polls long predates the U.S. attorneys plot -- and the U.S. voting system needs an overhaul.

But the assault on voter fraud was a solution looking for a problem. As part of the Help America Vote Act, Republicans insisted on creating the Election Assistance Commission, which commissioned studies of the asserted problem. When the studies failed to turn up evidence of fraud nationwide, appointed Republican officials on the EAC insisted that the language say only that "there is a great deal of debate on the pervasiveness of fraud in elections" -- the ... Full Story »

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by Roland F. Hirsch - Oct. 1, 2008

This is a very biased opinion article. Worse, it ignores documented cases of voter fraud favoring the Democrats. Most observers, including the press, believe there was substantial fraud in the 2004 Presidential election in Milwaukee, where there were more votes than voters, and where 70,000 of the 270,000 voters registered on Election Day, an unprecendentedly large number. See for example, http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=324933. There clearly was fraud in Saint Louis in 2000, where the polls were held open long after the normal closing time to allow additional voters to be found. The author does not even credit John Ashcroft for refusing to challenge the election of a dead man, which is against the U.S. Constitution, but instead graciously allowing the designation of a replacement after the election.

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